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About Garth Risk Hallberg

Garth Risk Hallberg (born November 1978) is an American author. His debut novel is City on Fire.

Hallberg was born outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana and grew up in Greenville, North Carolina. In 2001 he received a degree in English from Washington University in St. Louis, where he met Elise White, his future wife. Both of Hallberg's parents were teachers; his father was also a writer. They divorced when Hallberg was 13.

Hallberg credits David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest with allowing him to face issues that had led him to substance abuse as a young man.

Garth Risk Hallberg writes about Fiction, New York Times reviewed, New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York, and Heirs. Their best-known work is City on fire.

On FindMyTBR we track 2 books by Garth Risk Hallberg, 2 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including City on Fire and The Second Coming. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.